Nothing wrong with revisiting/re-exploring old ideas and impressions: lest we forget. Harris tweed got fairly short shrift from one poster who favoured - for good family reasons - Donegal. So, Irish tweed was getting the thumbs-up a dozen or so years ago. I've become fairly indifferent to tweed or even cord jackets during the past decade but would still look with interest on Donegal tweed if it ticked the right boxes (which is not altogether likely, I admit): natural shoulder, tobacco-brown colouring with those lovely flecks, three-two, patch pockets, made in the USA etc. And pricewise? What might we expect to pay? I have nothing to do with online buying nowadays. Ebay and Etsy for me are long over. So - a matter of miracles occurring in some vintage shop?
I find there are still bargains to be found at eBay.
As I age now and the world turns, I'm less fastidious about a jacket having every Ivy detail.
Donegal tweed is great, especially when you know it has been made in house. I have some wonderful jackets in true Donegal multi cour fleck over a single colour base that I enjoying wearing immensely. I'm grateful a small company such as Magee can continue to exist.
As for grades of tweed, with the world calling sleepwear their daily clothes- we should be grateful to keep any tweed going.